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State budget woes put Connecticut towns in a state of uncertainty By Linda Tishler Levinson
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Nearly 400 people, some from as far away as Colorado and Canada, attended the third annual open house at Great Country Timber Frames on Jan. 20 in Ellington. See story, another photo, page 10.
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Towns around Connecticut begin their fiscal year July 1, the same time as the state. While towns may adopt their budgets before the state does — usually town budgets are adopted in the spring — they ordinarily know what level of state funding they will receive by the end of June. This was no ordinary year. It took the state Legislature until late fall to adopt a budget and have it signed by Gov, Dannel P. Malloy. It wasn’t until Nov. 17 that they learned just what their funding would be. In nearly all cases around north central Connecticut, that meant cuts. In January, Somers sent out supplemental tax bills, adding 1 mill to the 25.47 mill rate adopted in May.
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